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Creating Effective Partnerships
- 6. Polk HALO
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- Partnerships between organizations are kind of like marriages. You have to put on the other person’s glasses and try to see things from their perspective Both sides have to get something out of it and feel fulfilled for a partnership to work. It works best if Elected Officials identify and facilitate partnership opportunities and staff handles the details. We all have lots of partnerships alread – fire, police, economic development, etc. Look at those partnerships and figure out what makes the successful ones tick.
- Partnership 101 We have a pool but no bodies to run it. YMCA knows how to run pools and pool-related recreational programs. The City maintains the pool with some assistance from YMCA. We let them operate the pool and collect revenue – they can add to their programming, we provide a service without needing additional staff time. This successful partnership expanded into the creation of nite court with the help of our police department. Games, dances, etc. on Saturday nights at the high school to keep kids off the streets. This evolved into a partnership with the school, who now provides a meal for everyone who attends. The school purchases produce from local food producers – supporting the local economy.
- Partnerships 201 They need to train people on heavy equipment to build airfields, etc. We needed someone to rough grade our amphitheater The guard did the work for free as a training exercise and saved us $700,000 A little more complex – have to navigate federal process, and we dedicated a PW staff to work with them
- This led to later projects including construction of a 50 acre ballfield complex which is currently underway. The guard completed about $2 M worth of work on this project for us. During each guard project, we ensure they get a lot of good press and the community usually sponsors a bbq or two as a thank you. They were grand marshals of our Independence Day parade last year. It’s good to show appreciation for your partner.
- Partnerships 401 How many people have sidewalks like this in their city? How many have an easy, no hassle way to get it fixed? Background on HALO – WIA funded program looking for hands-on work experience for low income youth First partnership had youth build 500 feet of bike path Individual placements Became fiscal agent and then…
- Partnered with Polk HALO to repair sidewalks. Youth worked under an experienced contractor and learned a marketable skill Federal stimulus $ paid wages and tools, homeowners paid for the cement – they got new sidewalks for about 1/3 the cost. We replaced 2,300 linear feet of sidewalk last summer with this program.
- HALO youth also built three picnic shelters in our parks, completed several projects for the Grand Ronde Tribe, learned how to operate heavy equipment with the Guard on the ballfield project, and a host of other things. All told, the summer program involved partnerships between about 20 different agencies, organizations and businesses. This requires a LOT of checking in/monitoring to ensure everyone is getting what they need out of the partnership 97 youth were employed for 12 months and gained quality work experience – 70 of those youth were employed or in secondary education within 3 months of program close. The City received plenty of tangible benefits as well as the intangibles of a better trained, better paid, more motivated youth population. Other partners were able to build structures, complete riparian restoration projects, and generally accomplish more than they would have without the program.